Scott Bean sold the Mad FX realtime animation viewer with the promise of a LW 3d scene to Mad FX converter.

The promised 'soon to be released' plugin was incentive to buy Mad FX 1.0. Although cheap at U$79.00, I would not have paid the money to participate in a beta testing effort knowing that the promise to support LW 3d was false.

Instead of finishing the converter, Mad FX was abondoned, (no corporate support) so that he could work on Shaderworks.

He announced that Activision bought Shaderworks, so congrats to him.
And he made the alpha version available to the public.

I wonder if he had finished Mad FX, if Newtek would have become interested in making it part of LightWave 3d?